Please help me critique this posing video clip

Mike Pulcinella · Oct 26, 2007

This is a repost of my recent Victor Martinez clip. Please ignore for the moment that it's Victor (I know that's hard to do!) and help me critique the camerawork.

What do you like about the way it was shot? What DON'T you like about it? If this was your posing routine what would you have wished that I had done differently?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puTIphmRvP0

Thanks in advance for your time,
Mike

www.mikepulcinella.com

oldfella · Oct 26, 2007

Honestly Mike, overall I liked it. Only a couple of times you maybe could have pulled back a bit to keep more of the subject in the frame. Most of the close ups were good. Like I said overall If I were the subject, I would have liked it! Nice job.

muscledoc1 · Oct 27, 2007

Good routine,the only thing i could think of is sometimes his eyes looked like he was "high"-or about to pass out or something,more smiling,better eye contact could help.oh...and a little bit less stiffness.

Mike Pulcinella · Oct 29, 2007

muscledoc1 said:
Good routine,the only thing i could think of is sometimes his eyes looked like he was "high"-or about to pass out or something,more smiling,better eye contact could help.oh...and a little bit less stiffness.

There's not too much that the videographer can do about that!! LOL!

muscledoc1 · Oct 29, 2007

OH......SORRY...I THOUGHT YOU MEANT CRITIQUE THE ROUTINE.AS FAR AS CAMERA WORK,LOOKS FINE-TO MAKE IT QA BIT MORE PROFFESIONAL I WOULD DO A CLOSE-UP HERE AND THERE.

Mike Pulcinella · Oct 29, 2007

muscledoc1 said:
OH......SORRY...I THOUGHT YOU MEANT CRITIQUE THE ROUTINE.AS FAR AS CAMERA WORK,LOOKS FINE-TO MAKE IT QA BIT MORE PROFFESIONAL I WOULD DO A CLOSE-UP HERE AND THERE.

Ha ha! That's okay. Thanks for your input. You bring up a good point.

I've posted this on a few BB forums and gotten conflicting opinions about doing closeups. Some like them, some don't. Those that don't say they want to see the whole body all the time. My thought was that I knew that this clip was going to be shown on the tiny Youtube screen and thought that y'all would want to zoom in and see some more detail.

So now the question becomes...to "close-up" or not to "close up"?